I try to be all squee and no rant...BUT....

[ride_4ever]

I try to be all squee and no rant in my LJ and DW, but after months of this inability to post C6DVD pics -- yes, that's right, pics from Valentine's Day 2015 -- I'm going to have a moment's rant.

There's a C6DVD creation of mine that I want to post to AO3 and there's a card from Turnbull to Fraser that turned up on my desk at work about which I want to blog in my LJ and DW...but I have been unable to get the pics off my smartphone no matter how many icons I click or how many resets I try.

Today I took my phone to my service provider's headquarters, and they told me the way for me to access the pics is to buy a new phone and take the memory card out of my current phone and put it in the new phone.

*facepalm*

Comments

[isis]

Can you take the memory card out of your phone and put it into a laptop computer or a card reader?

What kind of phone do you have? (Not provider, but brand type)?

[ride_4ever]

Hmmm...this is both my first smartphone (it's an AT&T Impulse 4G) and my first laptop. I didn't know that a device so much bigger than the phone would have a port small enough for the phone's memory card. I'll take a look at the laptop's ports and try to figure out which one is for the memory card. TYK for the suggestion.

[isis]

You might need a card reader adapter for your computer, but it should be doable.

You can also try asking on forums specifically for your phone.

Good luck!

[ride_4ever]

TYK for eliminating my feeling of helplessness. I'm gonna check out these options.

[verushka70]

That absolutely sucks! I'd offer tech help, but I'd need to have the phone, like, in my hand to really help. You've probably already tried emailing the pics to yourself, right? How about text or multimedia message to your email address? Sometimes that works... Let me know.
ETA: Sorry, I forgot you don't have text messaging on your phone. Is that something you literally CAN'T do with your service contract, or is it just that they might charge you for the text/multimedia messages?

Also, you can try calling technical support of your cell provider. Call the customer service line first, then be sure to choose tech support.

I don't believe what the person at the cell store told you... But, then, they probably didn't know how to troubleshoot. Did *they* call tech support while you were there??

[ride_4ever]

Oh, this tech guy does know how to troubleshoot; he's my regular guy there who has fixed things with my phone before.

I can't send the pics from my phone to somewhere else because the function is "stuck" on slideshow; I can't stop it at an individual image in order to send the image.

If I get a card-reader adapter for my laptop, I can get the pics from my memory card to my laptop.

Sadly I am sure that I will have to get a new smartphone soon; this thing with the pics is actually only one of several features that are failing because of the age of the phone (it's about 5 years old and is running on Android 2.2).

About texting, not impossible to do it with my phone, but I get hit with charges that I don't incur with other modes of communication via smartphone, so I have a huge preference for not texting.

[verushka70]

Well, I had a 2.2 Android phone a few years ago and iirc I had a similar problem. I couldn't email the pics to myself as attachments (you've tried that, right? and then open the email from your laptop). But I *could* attach the pics as attachments to a text message (which gets converted to a multimedia message). You can send text messages to your email from your phone, iirc. With my old phone, the problem was that the memory on my phone was full, but I doubt think you have that problem.

But the card reader solution only works if you have a MicroSD memory card in your smartphone. If you don't, and you only have the phone's internal SIM card (that all phones have), I don't know if any card reader can read phone SIMs... usually only the cell stores have those, to transfer your contacts from old phone to new phone.

What model phone is it, and what cell provider? I'll try to see if there are phone forums that have this problem listed. You're probably not the only person who had this problem...

[ride_4ever]

I have been mailing pics as attachments to my email for five years -- it's not like this is an inherent problem of this model phone -- it started at about the same time as not always being able to turn the phone on or off when I push the on-off button, and at about the same time as I started having problems with getting LJ on my phone and the LJ support team told me it's because of the age of my phone. The ability to email pics as attachments does me no good if I can't access the pics individually and that is exactly what the phone won't do anymore.

TYK for offering to check the phone forums, but since this keeps building into more and more things no longer functioning properly on the phone, I'm just going to go this weekend to buy whatever is the newest version of my current phone.

[akamine_chan]

I have a newish smartphone (purchased this year) and it won't talk to my computer because I'm still running Windows XP on my computer.

So, I bought a micro SD card reader (this one, for $2.99 at Office Depot). I pull the micro SD card out of my phone, put it into the card reader, then plug it into my computer's USB port like it's a regular flash drive. Then I can open up the files on the SD Card and download things from my computer.

The other thing is that you want to have an app on your phone that allows you to browse, copy and move files. What comes as stock on the phone won't cut it, because it won't let you see all the files on your phone. Try something like Astro File Manager, which lets you manipulate the files on your phone.

[ride_4ever]

So much great info about things I didn't know before! TYK! I'll be adventuring into these improvements!